Imaging analysis of collagen fiber networks in cusps of porcine aortic valves: effect of their local distribution and alignment on valve functionality

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1002-1008

  Mega, Mor ^a   Marom, Gil ^b   Halevi, Rotem ^a   Hamdan, Ashraf ^c   Bluestein, Danny ^b   Haj Ali, Rami ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

aortic valves; Collagen fibers; fluid structure interaction; numerical model; porcine specific

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COLLAGEN; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODELS; TISSUE;

AORTIC VALVES; COLLAGEN FIBER; IMAGING ANALYSIS; LOCAL DISTRIBUTIONS; NATIVE COLLAGEN; PORCINE SPECIFIC; SOFT TISSUE; STRESS MAGNITUDE;

FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CARDIAC MAPPING SYSTEM; COLLAGEN FIBER; HEART CYCLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KINEMATICS; NONHUMAN; PIG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TISSUE PREPARATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; CHEMISTRY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COLLAGEN;

ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; COLLAGEN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84945236947     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2015.1088009     Document Type: Article

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